Big plans, poor planning undermining Defence procurement

According to some, like New Democrat critic Matthew Kellway, the issue (somewhat predictably) comes down to simple high-level government incompetence.

“They’ve never done defence policy,” he told reporters days before the government made public the KPMG costing figures on the F-35. “They’ve got a Canada First Defence Strategy which sits in ruins around the minister of defence.”

The military has acknowledged its plan needs to be reconsidered, and has planned to refresh the Canada First Defence Strategy (CFDS) in the near future. In 2011, it received a completed